Downtown Blight

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

September 14, 1991

ORANGE COUNTY is supposed to be building an courthouse complex in downtown Orlando. Over a year ago, county commissioners tied up several blocks of property between Orange and Magnolia avenues, evicted tenants or let leases run out on said property and, in some cases, paid cost settlements to break leases.

Those vacant buildings look great all boarded up, sporting colorful and interesting graffiti. Not at all attractive to an otherwise prosperous downtown Orlando. Looks like something the city's Code Enforcement Board should look into.

It's a good probability that had Orange County continued to receive rents on these properties, coupled with the money spent to break leases and board up the walls, we could more than pay for salary increases for those county commissioners and for remodeling of their offices.